D to the M

Just in case you're, uh, singing the Saddam-capture spoof lyrics when the first track of Music for the Masses plays, I changed the title and outro litany. Having whipped the first set together in about fifteen minutes, I don't think one adjustment is too bad.

WHILE WE'RE TALKING MODE: Do you have the extended tracklist for Masses? You know "Pleasure, Little Treasure"? The first group of reversed yells, moans and groans in the instrumental outro is goof-off footage by none other than Tears for Fears, made during recording for their 1986 smash hit, Songs from the Big Chair, and used by producer Dave Bascombe for track four of that album, "Mothers Talk." It sounds like Roland Orzabel leading a group of people in the studio chanting "Hey, oi, oi, oi, oi" several times with Roland suggesting afterward, tongue firmly implanted in cheek, "Print that, print that." Bascombe, of course, helped produce Masses with Mode one year later - and probably slapped in the spaced-out track to fill up space.

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